Gordon v. Hobart
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maine
This was a bill in equity, brought [by Charles Gordon and others against Leavitt Hobart and Polly Hobart] to redeem certain parcels of land, which were separately mortgaged by three different and independent mortgages, by John Gordon (under whom the plaintiffs claimed by intermediate assignments), to John Hobart, since deceased, un•der whom the defendants claimed title.
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This was a bill in equity, brought [by Charles Gordon and others against Leavitt Hobart and Polly Hobart] to redeem certain parcels of land, which were separately mortgaged by three different and independent mortgages, by John Gordon (under whom the plaintiffs claimed by intermediate assignments), to John Hobart, since deceased, un•der whom the defendants claimed title. The plaintiff in the original bill (Jesse Gordon), | having died during its pendency, a bill of revivor was brought by his heirs, the present j plaintiffs; and the cause came on for argument upon the bill, answers, and…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
The principal ■question in the case is, whether the plaintiffs have a right to redeem either or both of the mortgages, or the same have been foreclosed, so as to cut off the right of redemption. But some other points have been incidentally stated, and relied on by the defendants, to which it is' proper briefly to refer. One objection is, that the plaintiffs are not entitled to maintain their bill, because no tender has been made of the money due upon the mortgages, as is required by the act of Maine of the 5th of February, 1821 (chapter 39, § 1). To this, the true…
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